Theatre and Autobiography

Theatre and Autobiography
Title Theatre and Autobiography PDF eBook
Author Sherrill Grace
Publisher Talonbooks
Pages 364
Release 2006
Genre Drama
ISBN

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This groundbreaking exploration of a wide range of contemporary theorists and playwrights covers an extraordinary breadth of styles and performances.

Act One

Act One
Title Act One PDF eBook
Author Moss Hart
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 560
Release 2014-06-03
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1443435317

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Act One is the autobiography of Moss Hart, an American playwright and theatre director. Born into impoverished circumstances—his father was often unemployed—Hart left school at age twelve for a series of odd jobs that included being an entertainment director at a Catskills summer resort. Hart’s big break came in 1930 with the Broadway hit Once in a Lifetime, written with George Kaufman. The two would collaborate again on You Can’t Take It With You (1936) and The Man Who Came To Dinner (1939). You Can’t Take It With You won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1937, and the 1938 film version, directed by Frank Capra, won Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Director. Act One was adapted for a 1963 film starring George Hamilton, and for a 2014 stage production starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Lives in Play

Lives in Play
Title Lives in Play PDF eBook
Author Ryan Claycomb
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 272
Release 2012-08-08
Genre Drama
ISBN 0472118404

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Lives in Play explores the centrality of life narratives to women’s drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was “The personal is the political.” These autobiographical and biographical “true stories” have the political impact of the real and have also helped a range of feminists tease out the more complicated aspects of gender, sex, and sexuality in a Western culture that now imagines itself as “postfeminist.” The book’s scope is broad, from performance artists like Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and Bobby Baker to playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks, Maria Irene Fornes, and Sarah Kane. The book links the narrative tactics and theatrical approaches of biography and autobiography and shows how theater artists use life writing strategies to advance women’s rights and remake women’s representations. Lives in Play will appeal to scholars in performance studies, women’s studies, and literature, including those in the growing field of auto/biography studies. “ A fresh perspective and wide-ranging analysis of changes in feminist theater for the past thirty years . . . a most welcome addition to the literature on theater, in particular scholarship on feminist practices.” —Choice “Helps sustain an important history by reviving works of feminist theater and performance and giving them a new and refreshing context and theorical underpinning . . . considering 1970s performance art alongside more conventional play production.” —Lesley Ferris, The Ohio State University

The Theatre of Erwin Piscator

The Theatre of Erwin Piscator
Title The Theatre of Erwin Piscator PDF eBook
Author John Willett
Publisher New York : Holmes & Meier
Pages 232
Release 1979
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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This is the first book in English to cover the theatrical career of Erwin Piscator. As one of the leading authorities on 20th century German theatre, the author is well-equipped to write about this important director. Most of the text is devoted to the Weimar period and is illustrated with rare pictures and documents.

Joan's Book

Joan's Book
Title Joan's Book PDF eBook
Author Joan Littlewood
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 601
Release 2016-07-28
Genre Drama
ISBN 1474233236

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'Once upon a time, the London theatre was a charming mirror held up to cosiness. Then came Joan Littlewood, smashing the glass, blasting the walls, letting the wind of life blow in a rough, but ready, world. Today, we remember this irresistible force with love and gratitude.' (Peter Brook) Along with Peter Brook, Joan Littlewood, affectionately termed 'The Mother of Modern Theatre', has come to be known as the most galvanising director of mid-twentieth-century Britain, as well as a founder of so many of the practices of contemporary theatre. The best-known work of Littlewood's company, Theatre Workshop, included the development and premieres of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, Brendan Behan's The Hostage and The Quare Fellow, and the seminal Oh What A Lovely War. This autobiography, originally published in 1994, offers an unparalleled first-hand account of Littlewood's extraordinary life and career, from illegitimate child in south-east London to one of the most influential directors and practitioners of our times. It is published along with an introduction by Philip Hedley CBE, previously Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Stratford East and Assistant Director to Joan Littlewood.

Performing Autobiography

Performing Autobiography
Title Performing Autobiography PDF eBook
Author Jenn Stephenson
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 225
Release 2013-01-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 144264446X

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Investigates the use of plays as a form of autobiography, looking at how the line between real-life and fiction can become blurred.

Jacob Adler

Jacob Adler
Title Jacob Adler PDF eBook
Author Jacob P. Adler
Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages 436
Release 2001
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781557834584

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(Applause Books). Jacob Adler, with his performances in the Yiddish King Lear , Uriel Acosta and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice , became first a megastar of the exploding Yiddish theatre, and then all of Broadway. His memoirs, originally written and published in Yiddish and now translated (by his granddaughter) into English provides not only a compelling portrait of one of America's greatest actors but a fascinating social history of his time.